KR101122048B1 - Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a solar cell, wherein the solar cell includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a protective film formed on the semiconductor layer, and an opening formed in the protective film to expose a portion of the semiconductor layer, the opening at least Two straight portions and at least two rounded corners connected to the straight portions. For this reason, the uniformity of the formed opening part improves, and the operation efficiency of the electrode, terminal, etc. formed in each opening part improves, for this reason, the operation efficiency of a solar cell also improves.
Solar cell, opening, back contact, screen printing, contact hole
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The present invention relates to a solar cell and a method of manufacturing the same.
Recently, as the prediction of depletion of existing energy sources such as oil and coal is increasing, interest in alternative energy to replace them is increasing. Among them, solar cells generate electrical energy from solar energy, which is advantageous in that the environmentally friendly and energy source of solar energy is infinite and its life is long.
Solar cells are largely classified into silicon solar cells, compound semiconductor solar cells, and tandem solar cells according to raw materials, and silicon solar cells are the mainstream.
A typical silicon solar cell includes a substrate and an emitter layer made of semiconductors having different conductive types such as p-type and n-type, and electrodes formed on the substrate and the emitter, respectively. At this time, p-n junction is formed in the interface of a board | substrate and an emitter part.
In contrast, the solar cell may have a back junction electrode type structure in which all of the electrodes serving as the conductive transparent electrode layer and the back electrode are formed on the semiconductor substrate to which light is not incident. The solar cell of such a back electrode type structure increases the area to which light is incident, thereby improving the efficiency of the solar cell.
When solar light is incident on the solar cell, electrons and holes are generated in a semiconductor doped with an n-type or p-type impurity by a photovoltaic effect. The electrons and holes generated by the photovoltaic effect are attracted to the n-type emitter and p-type substrate, respectively, and are collected by electrodes electrically connected to the substrate and the emitter, respectively. .
The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to improve the transmission efficiency of the solar cell.
Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to improve the efficiency of a solar cell.
A solar cell according to an aspect of the present invention includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a protective film formed on the semiconductor layer, and an opening formed in the protective film to expose a portion of the semiconductor layer, the openings being at least two A straight portion and at least two rounded corners connected to the straight portion are provided.
The openings may have the same length or may have different sides facing each other.
The length ratio of two curved portions of the at least two curved portions connected to one straight portion of the at least two straight portions and the one straight portion may be 1: 49.5: 49.5 to 98: 1: 1.
The opening may have a polygonal structure having a curved edge.
The substrate may be a semiconductor substrate. In addition, the substrate may be a glass substrate or a plastic substrate.
The solar cell according to the above feature may further include an electrode contacting the semiconductor layer exposed through the opening.
Preferably, the semiconductor layer and the substrate have opposite conductivity types.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a solar cell, including preparing a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, and forming a semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type on the semiconductor substrate. Forming a protective film on the semiconductor layer, applying an etching paste on the protective film to form an opening that exposes a portion of the semiconductor layer, and forming an electrode in contact with the semiconductor layer exposed through the opening And the opening has at least two straight edges and at least two rounded corners connected to the straight portions.
According to the characteristic of this invention, the uniformity of the formed opening part improves, the operation efficiency of the electrode, the terminal, etc. formed in each opening part improves, and, thereby, the operation efficiency of a solar cell also improves.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.
In the drawings, the thickness of layers, films, panels, regions, etc., are exaggerated for clarity. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification. When a layer, film, region, plate, or the like is referred to as being "on" another portion, it includes not only the case directly above another portion but also the case where there is another portion in between. On the contrary, when a part is "just above" another part, there is no other part in the middle. Also, when a part is formed as "whole" on the other part, it means not only that it is formed on the entire surface (or the front surface) of the other part but also not on the edge part.
With reference to the drawings will be described the shape of the opening formed in the film according to an embodiment of the present invention.
1 is a schematic view of an opening formed in a film according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II-II in FIG.
In the present embodiment, the panels shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are formed by contacting each other with semiconductors doped with impurities of different conductivity types to form pn junctions, and forming electrodes by stacking films and the like on different types of semiconductors. It can be used as a panel for solar cells to produce electric power, but is not limited thereto.
In such a panel, the
Each
The opening 81 removes a portion of the one or
In the solar cell, the opening 81 forms a plurality of electrodes respectively formed in the emitter portion and the substrate, or removes a portion of the emitter portion, thereby changing the doping concentration of impurities according to the position of the emitter portion. It is used to manufacture a battery or the like. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the
First, a method of forming a
3A to 3C are diagrams sequentially illustrating a film manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a plan view of a screen mask according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 5 is a plan view of a screen mask according to the prior art. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a substrate on which a paste is printed on a film by a screen mask according to another embodiment of the present invention.
The
Next, as shown in FIG. 3B, the
As shown in FIG. 4, the
The pattern formed in the
This pattern is completed by applying an emulsion to the
Next, when the
Next, the
As such, in order to form the
As shown in FIG. 5, when the
This causes a problem that the shape of the printed etching paste is not constant. As a result, when the
In addition, when the
However, since the
In the present exemplary embodiment, the
In addition, in the present embodiment, the description has been made based on the fact that the
Moreover, although the screen printing method is used for the polygonal or
Next, referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, a solar cell employing a polygonal opening having rounded corners according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.
7 is a partial cross-sectional view of a solar cell according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a plan view of an opening formed in a rear protective film of the solar cell shown in FIG. 7.
Referring to FIG. 7, a
The
The
The front
The front
The
The
An
The
The
An impurity having a first conductivity type, for example, an n-type impurity, is doped in the
The
The
The
The
In the present exemplary embodiment, the
The
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The first and
As described above, since a portion of the first and
The first and
For example, the first and
In the present embodiment, since the first and
In the present embodiment, the first and
In the solar cell according to the present exemplary embodiment having the structure as described above, the
When light is irradiated to the
These electron-hole pairs are separated from each other by the pn junction of the
At this time, the contact force and the transmission efficiency of the first and
As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the solar cell having the
However, as an alternative example of the solar cell having an opening according to an embodiment of the present invention, a solar cell in which an electrode collecting electrons and an electrode collecting holes are formed on the front and rear surfaces of the substrate, respectively. In this case, the opening is formed in the antireflection film formed on the emitter portion forming a pn junction with the substrate to lower the reflectance of light and also serve as a protective film to protect the underlying layer, so as to contact the emitter portion formed on the substrate and the electrode. Is used.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.
1 is a schematic diagram of an opening formed in a film according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1.
3A to 3C are diagrams sequentially illustrating a film manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a plan view of a screen mask according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a plan view of a screen mask according to the prior art.
6 is a cross-sectional view of a substrate on which a paste is printed on a film by a screen mask according to another embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a partial cross-sectional view of a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a plan view of an opening formed in a rear protective film of the solar cell shown in FIG. 7.
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10, 110: substrate 120: front protective film
130: antireflection film 141: first impurity portion
142: second impurity portion 150: rear protective film
161: first electrode 162: second electrode
170:
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